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Oscar Wilde (Censorship (Ready Reference series))

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By the 1890’s, Oscar Wilde was the most popular playwright in London. His successes included Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Nevertheless, censorship of his work began with his very first play, Vera, or the Nihilists, scheduled for performance in 1881. Set in Russia around 1800, the play was based on the 1878 assassination of a St. Petersburg police official by an eighteen-year-old girl—who became the heroine of Wilde’s...

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